The noise from the alarm
at Anderson’s Automotive
Services on Nelson Avenue
in Nakusp woke the neighbours, and likely scared robbers away, said owner Sheila
Anderson.
Around 4 a.m. on March
19, 2013 police responded to
a report of a break and enter
to the gas station. Once there

they saw the culprit(s) had
forced the front door open
and stole a small quantity
of tobacco products. Several
neighbours were awakened
by the business’ alarm being
triggered, and Anderson and
police soon arrived on scene.
No one was seen or
located in the area at that
time, but a number of items
were seized from the scene
for forensic examination.
Both the door and the lock

needed to be repaired.
Police are continuing to
investigate the break and
enter and are seeking assistance from the community.
If you have any information that will assist in identifying the individual(s)
responsible, please contact
the Nakusp RCMP (250265-3677) or Crimestoppers
(1-800-222-TIPS).

Stephanie Stenseth and Sheila Anderson point to where the door was pried
open during a burglary at Anderson’s Automotive.
Claire Paradis/Arrow Lakes News

Staff arriving at the Summit
Lake lodge were greeted by doors
that had been pried and kicked
open.
At some point early on Tuesday morning, someone had pried
open the lower door and kicked the
rental shop door open where they

stole a ski calibrator, a pricey tool
used by the ski hill.
“That, we’d really like back,”
said Summit’s Eric Waterfield,
who said it’s not much use to anyone other than a ski hill.
The
marauding
continued
upstairs where the interloper(s)
kicked the door to the kitchen in
and helped themselves to chips,

pop, meat patties and bacon as
well as $30 in change. The lost
inventory will likely mean contractor Heidi McKee won’t be able
to afford a saddle she was saving
her earnings from the kitchen to
buy.
“It’s a dream she’ll have to put
off for a year,” said Waterfield,
who said it was a shame that the

hard working employees and contractors are paying the price for the
mindless vandalism and theft.
There isn’t too much to steal
at the ski hill, with one of the
few things that would be missed
being the ski calibrator. Waterfield would like to see it back, suggesting the tool could be left in a
public place with a note for it to

be returned to the ski hill and an
anonymous tip to the police about
where it’s located.
“The whole hill is non-profit
and is run by hard working people,” he said. “It’s really devastating. We’re working to make a good
place for people to go.”

NRO).
The two tenures have an allowable annual
cut of 174,000 cubic metres, and would support increased production at Interfor’s Castlegar sawmill.
“Springer Creek is a big deal for us,” said
Geoff Bekker, Castlegar Division’s Woodlands Manager for Interfor. “It’ll give us more
logs for Castlegar – not that we’re going to
run that many more logs through. It just gives
us a secure tenure base, that’s really what it’s
about.” Bekker says the acquisition shows
that Interfor is investing in the long term.
Because the new tenures are located in
more highly populated areas, they also come
with different land use issues. Some residents take their water from watersheds in the
area, said Bekker as an example of one of the
issues Interfor will be addressing in the new
tenures.
“When you have more people you have
people who don’t necessarily want to have
logging in their backyard for a bunch of reasons,” acknowledged Bekker, who said Inter-

for will be working with local groups and
individuals to find solutions.
Treasured mushroom picking grounds, for
example, aren’t something usually modeled
into the cut calculations unlike caribou habitat or old growth areas or stream reserves.
“You take a strip of timber around a creek
and you treat it as a park, then you know and
you put a line around it and you don’t harvest
it,” said Bekker, who referenced NACFOR’s
recent cut plan that was formulated with the
interests of local mushroom pickers in mind.
It’s a balance, he said, and although it
can be frustrating for both sides from time
to time, compromises can be reached. Ultimately the Ministry’s District Manager is the
one who makes the decision, based on the
information and studies provided.
Bekker started in Parks 33 years ago, then
moved on to silviculture, and then cutting
permit development, the surveying and planning stage in the logging process.

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Future getting brighter says Interfor

Are you informed about the
Columbia River Treaty?
Nakusp Senior Citizens Hall
is hosting 2 speakers
at 7:00 pm
27 March - (Wed)
Sid Parker, Mayor of Revelstoke for 7
years and MP for 8 years explains
why the treaty is so bad for B.C.

4 April - (Thur)
Wendy Holm, International Resource
Consultant and Advisor.
Of the Treaty Wendy says:
“it is critical that these communities
understand that there are options.
Their future depends on it.”

Darren Wethal, one of two men working the tug boat, hooks logs together at the Halfway log dump.
Claire Paradis/Arrow Lakes News

Interfor from page 1
Interfor has 11 log dumps
along the length of Upper
Arrow Lake, with four to five
operating at any given time.
Nakusp is the central part
of Interfor’s wood basket, and
home to Interfor’s operations
in the area, including Castlegar.
There are eight people on
staff in the office, each with a

minimum of 25 years in forestry, all of them originally
Pope and Talbot employees.
Interfor staff includes tugboat
operators and millworkers in
Castlegar as well, but the logging, trucking and road building is taken on by contractors.
Logging is “stump to dump”
which means contractors are
responsible for hauling as well
as logging.
When Pope and Talbot
declared bankruptcy in 2008

and sold its operations to Interfor, Bekker made the move to
the new company.
Feeling
the
economic
pinch in 2008, Interfor shut
down virtually all production, focused on planning for
two years, and then started up
again in July 2010.
Cutting has remained relatively constant since Dec.
2010, with 450,000 cubic
metres of wood being the
allowable annual cut. But

the lumber market has been
improving, Bekker said, with
the first quarter of 2013 showing the best prices in eight
years.
“The lumber market has
really gotten a lot better. We
saw some improvements in
2012,” said Bekker, “We’re
pretty optimistic although
there’s no guarantee the prices
will be the same the next quarter.”

BALANCED
BUDGET
REVENUE

2013/14

2014/15

2015/16

2016/17

Property and Asset Sales

Tax Measures

Expenditure Growth Management

Net Economic Growth

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THANK YOU

Get help during taxing time of year

The Nakusp Fire Department
would like to thank the following
for their generous donations and
support for our fundraiser for
the July 1st Fireworks.

Annual General Meeting
and Awards Night
Monday April 8th, 2013
6:30pm at the Arena

Dianne Zeuch, Nathaniel Howard (our newest Community Volunteer Income Tax team member, and Marilyn
Boxwell are three of the team of volunteers who can assist you with your taxes. Other members serving Nakusp
region, not present for the photo: Ray Blanchette and Heather Davidson (Nakusp/Burton/Arrow Park), Veronika
Pellowski (Hills/New Denver/Silverton) and Debi Bleakney (Fauquier/Edgewood).
Claire Paradis/Arrow Lakes News

Marilyn Boxwell
Seniors helping seniors

Now entering its tenth year
locally of free and confidential service made available to
families and individuals living
on a low to moderate income
level, the Nakusp region’s
Community Volunteer Income
Tax Program helps those who
request assistance in completing and filing their non-complex annual income tax and
benefits return.
Canada
Revenue
had

launched this volunteer program across Canada in
1971. Since that time, it has
grown and developed into a
widening network of trained
preparers with services being
made available upon request
to persons of any age who are
living on a limited income.
In the Province of B.C.
alone, it is estimated that more
than 15,000 returns have been
prepared by volunteers associated with CVITP in the past
year. This in turn has resulted
in uninterrupted access to benefits and entitlements according to a person’s eligibility.
This includes seniors, students, persons experiencing
any form of disability as well
as all other categories particularly those living on a tight
budget.
In order to accommodate
those wishing to take advantage of this valuable community service, drop-off and/or
pickup tax clinics have been
established at various conve-

MEALS ON WHEELS

AVAILABLE THROUGH HALCYON HOUSE.
Meals On Wheels provides tasty, nutritious hot meals
that are delivered to your home by volunteers between
12 noon and 1:00 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday and
Friday. The cost for this service is $7.00 per meal.
To arrange for Meals On Wheels please call
Anne at Community Services 250-265-3674 ext. 213
between 8:30am & 4:30pm

FROZEN MEALS

AVAILABLE AT COMMUNITY SERVICES.
16 professionally prepared meals for $100.
Orders are to be taken on the 1st & 3rd
Monday by 10 am. Pickup is 2nd and 4th
Wednesday of each month.
SEVERAL MENU CHOICES!
Meals must be prepaid. Call 265-3674.

nient locations.
In the Village of Nakusp
and
surrounding
area,
the clinic is held each Wednesday from 10-11 a.m. at the
Seniors’ Hall (log building) on
8th Avenue NW. A new clinic
open to the public takes place
at the Nakusp Campus of Selkirk College. Your documentation can be dropped off at
the administration office during operating hours, attention
of Nathaniel Howard; for more
information call 265-4077.
For residents of Hills, New
Denver, Silverton and environs, a clinic is open on Tuesdays through April starting
March 26 at the New Denver
Community Services office
from 9.30 a.m.-noon and 1-4
p.m. Volunteer Veronika Pellowski at 358-2140 will provide assistance.
Those requiring in-home
or facility-based special needs
services, contact Dianne at
265-4298 to set up an appointment. Note that tax returns

should be filed by April 30,
however the former telefile
service offered by Canada
Revenue is no longer available. This has been replaced
by an e-file (computerized)
method of filing your return
which your CVITP preparer
will help you with, as well
as the paper method if necessary. Paper forms are available at the post office or may
be downloaded to a computer.
Remember to bring along
your income tax documentation including forms and tax
slips which carry information required by Canada Revenue in order to prove your
income and benefits eligibility. Once your return has been
processed, all documentation
will be returned to you and is
always treated as private and
confidential.
For further information,
contact the general co-ordinator Marilyn at 265-0075.

Arrow & Slocan Lakes Community Services

SPECIAL EVENTS
AT HALCYON HOUSE

All Seniors in the community
welcome to attend all Activities
Any questions Call Judy at 265-3056 (eve.) or 265-3692

ROTARY VILLA LOUNGE

Monday: BINGO 7:00 pm at the New Lounge
Thursday: Soup & Bun Day 12:00 Noon at the New Lounge

Hydro responds to meter letter
Editor,
I would like to respond to some
misinformation that was recently
published about the security of BC
Hydro’s smart meters.
BC Hydro has the responsibility
to deliver power safely and securely
to 1.9 million customers around the
province. That’s why we are installing the best available technology and
equipment to meet that obligation.
BC Hydro takes the privacy of its
customers seriously. All customer
information will continue to be protected under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.
This act does not allow for the disclosure of customer information to a third
party unless required by law.
The new meters do not provide
BC Hydro with real-time consumption information nor can they identify the specific appliance or activity
that used the electricity. They record
total energy consumption by the hour
and send the encrypted consumption
data to BC Hydro three times a day.
The data is transmitted through secure
channels, processed in secured facilities, and managed by rigorous access
control policies.
Further, the smart metering program is about more than just exchanging meters – it’s about upgrading the
province’s aging electricity grid. Now
that 95 per cent of the new meters

have been installed, customers are
beginning to see the benefits of a more
modern electrical system.
For example, smart meters have
made it possible for customers to see
more timely information about their
electricity use through their secure
MyHydro account. This new feature allows customers to track their
energy use by the hour up to the previous day and see their projected cost
for the current billing period. This feature and other conservation tools will
help customers conserve energy and
save money.
The automated billing system will
also eliminate routinely estimated bills
and manual data entry errors, ensuring customers are billed only for the
power they use in that billing period.
Later this year, customers will benefit from automatic outage detection
that will help our crews restore power
faster and safer.
We thank customers for their support and patience as we work to modernize our electricity system so we can
continue to safely provide the electricity needed to power homes and business around the province every day.
Gary Murphy
Chief Project Officer, Smart
Metering and Infrastructure
BC Hydro

FortisBC responds to letter
Editor,
In a letter published recently in your
newspaper, there were certain statements made regarding our advanced
metering project that I would like to
clarify. FortisBC recently completed
two weeks of oral hearings as part of
the public and transparent application and approval regulatory process
the utility is going through before it
can install advanced meters. Customers interested in learning more about
the regulatory process, can visit www.
bcuc.com.
In the letter, the author states that
that FortisBC hired the public relations firm ExponentPR. That is not

correct.
FortisBC retained Exponent Inc.,
Engineering and Scientific Consulting. Exponent Inc. authored a report
that compared FortisBC’s proposed
advanced meters to other wireless
technologies and concluded that the
proposed advanced meters are not
a public health risk. A copy of this
report and other information about
our Advanced Metering Infrastructure
(AMI) project is available at www.fortisbc.com/ami.
Ian Dyck
Manager, Electric AMI

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John Perkins
A Rational View
What we refer to as Modern
Times provides enough evidence
to support my contention that
religion has been mainly to blame
for the many wars of attrition that
have occurred in the last Millenium. During what is known as
The Crusades(1095 to 1290 AD),
two faiths, Christianity and Islam,
battled for possession of the socalled Holy Land and Pope Urban
ll urged all Christians to take up
arms to re-capture Jerusalem.
During the period 15621598 the French Wars of Religion between Catholics and
Protestants, known as Huguenots, accounted for the deaths of
30,000 Frenchmen.
Another instance in comparatively recent times was the
Cromwellian conquest of Ireland

between 1649 and 1653. Cromwell was a Quaker and hated
Catholics with an unimaginable
ferocity. It is thought that Cromwell’s genocide of the Catholics
was inspired by Joshua’s genocide of the Canaanites after the
Battle of Jericho; for details read
Joshua 6 with particular emphasis
on verse 21 to get the full account
of the slaughter.
The branch of Scotland Yard in
which I served, Special Branch,
was formed in 1883 in response
to a major incident in England
which in today’s climate would
have been called an act of terrorism. The Fenian Brotherhood, the
forerunner of the Irish Republican Army rolled a wagon loaded
with gunpowder down Pentonville Hill and blew a large hole in
the wall surrounding Pentonville
Prison in North London, where
several of their “colleagues” were
being held. All the Fenian prisoners escaped but were soon rearrested. This conflict, known as
The Troubles, between Catholics
and Protestants in Northern Ireland continues even as I write.
The Rwandan Genocide is so
often characterized as a conflict
between two tribes, the Hutu and
the Tutsi, and the religious component is either not considered
important or overlooked com-

pletely. When missionaries first
went to Rwanda they subscribed
to the Hamitic theory of race origins, named for Ham, a supposed
son of Noah, which taught that
the Tutsi were a superior race.
The churches found more willing converts among the majority
Hutu, the more easily convinced
of the two tribes, and there is no
doubt that the churches played a
significant role in fomenting this
racial tension.
Several church leaders have
been convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for
Rwanda, including Roman Catholic priests and nuns and a Seventh Day Adventist Church pastor.
The most recent incident of
faith-based violence occurred in
Myanmar/Burma and involved
Buddhists and Moslems, the
Rohingyas. The attacks occurred
in early November 2012 and the
attackers were Buddhists – what
would the Dalai Lama think?
In spite of their lofty ideals,
many religious people have feet
of clay. Blaise Pascal, a French
mathematician, philosopher and
devout Christian wrote in his Pensées: “Men never do evil so completely and so cheerfully as when
they do it from religious conviction.”

Night celebrating poetry love returns to library
There will be music in the background and a delicious array of refreshments will be on hand. The public is
encouraged to come and enjoy a rich
feast of food, music, and poetic words.
The date is Saturday, April 6, at 7 p.m.
at the Nakusp Public Library. As usual,
there’s no charge for the inspired events
that the Nakusp Public Library hosts.
The monthly meeting of the iPad
group will be taking place April 6 at 1

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A diverse night of fun, frivolity, emotion and sharing is coming to the Nakusp Public
Library again with “For the Love of Poetry.”
Photo courtesy Patty Riley
Owners Name:

Contributed by Patty RIley, NPL

It’s time for another unforgettable evening of poetry and pleasure! The Nakusp Public Library
is hosting its fourth annual “For

the Love of Poetry” evening, a
popular and anticipated event.
Fifteen or so presenters will
read their personal favourites
after sharing with the audience
what this poem means to them.

p.m.
Come by the Library and swap some
books on Saturday, April 20 at 1 p.m.
Leave a book (to a maximum of ten
please) take a book, and see what others are reading.
On Wednesday, April 24 at 1 p.m.,
the Scrabble players meet and compete. As always, everyone is welcome
to attend Library events, and they are
always free.

Arrow Lakes News
Sharon Bamber is one of the artist who took part in the CBCT last year.
Claire Paradis/Arrow Lakes News

Columbia Basin Culture Tour calling all artists
Contributed

Spring is upon us, and soon
summer will be here, along with
the Columbia Basin Culture Tour.
The CBCT is looking for artists
and venues in the Columbia Basin
to participate in the two day celebration of culture taking place
August 10-11, 2013 from 10 a.m.
to 5 p.m.
The CBCT is a self guided tour
showcasing local arts, culture and
heritage offered at no charge to the
general public. Full colour tour
directories will be available free
of charge to the public as a guide
to visit your studio, exhibition,
museum, art gallery, cultural centre or heritage site throughout the
Columbia Basin during this special weekend event. And yes, “artists” includes visual, written, per-

forming, media and inter-arts!
Visitors love this event and are
anticipating this fifth year.
Participating as a venue allows
you to really connect with locals,
develop a wider audience, educate the public about what you do,
market your activities, and attract
visitors to your community.
The CBCT allows visitors to
meet the participants “behind the
scenes” and allows them to: visit
artists studios that may not regularly be open to the public, purchase works directly from the artists, visit art galleries, museums
and cultural centres to view special interpretive displays, archives,
demonstrations or performances.
It is also a chance for them to meet
people such as artists, curators,
historians and volunteers that are
such a vital part of our local cul-

ture.
Final registration is April 15,
and there is an early bird registration discount for registering before
March 31.
The registration fee includes:
inclusion in printed directory, web
page profile, placement on on-line
interactive map, event signage,
province wide promotional campaign.
If you plan to have any special programming or demonstrations at your venue, details can be
included on your web page profile.
Directories and web profiles will
be released by the end of May, and
artist and venue web profiles will
remain online until Dec 31, 2013
to provide contact information for
follow up visits. For information
or to register visit: www.cbculturetour.com.

Change to
Advertising Deadline
Due to the Easter weekend, the advertising deadline
for the April 3rd edition of the Arrow Lakes News
will be Thursday, March 28th at noon.
Happy Easter from the staff of the Arrow Lakes News,
Mavis, Aaron, Claire, Fran, Rob & Greg.

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Kaslo’s Kootenay Mountain Sports moving to Nakusp
ing her to move to town. After looking at their books and seeing the financial reasons for the move, as well as
seeing what was afoot in Nakusp, they
decided to make the move.
“Marie [Wrede] was the main driving force to come out there,” Neufeld
said. “We really would complement
each other.” Kootenay Mountain
Sports is all about bike equipment,
repair, sales, and rentals, she said.
“We’ll grow. We’ll find out once we
get there.”
Another major reason for the move
is the amount of energy and projects
like the renovations at Summit Lake

Ski Area and the achievements of the
Nakusp and Area Community Trails
Society.
“We like the momentum building in
Nakusp,” Janis told the Arrow Lakes
News, who believes the move will be
a good one for the business and her
family, and Nakusp too.
Janis and Shon Neufeld bring a
bevy of skills with them. Janis will
continue to lead running clinics and
core training courses, and would love
to get some athletics going for kids
including triathlon and running clubs
(the Neufeld family includes four
kids who will be going to school in

Suffer Fest could have a Nakusp component, now that two board members are moving
the town.
Sam Van Schie/Black Press
Claire paradis
Arrow Lakes News

Nakusp’s gain of a new bike
shop might cause a little suffering for Kaslo, but the drive’s not
far for die-hard downhillers and
their road riding cousins. Janis
Neufeld and partner Shon are
packing up Kootenay Mountain
Sports and moving to Nakusp.
It’s official: the deal on the

business’ new building just went
through on March 15, and what
was once Black Bear Bike Repair
(and before that Evolution Boutique) will soon house the successful Kaslo bike store.
“We just confirmed everything,” Neufeld said on the phone
from Kaslo. “We got some help
from Community Futures, they’re
what made it possible.”
The store and family will be

moving in short order, moving
everything on April 30 and closing as close to May 1 as possible,
said Neufeld.
“We will have bikes,” said the
store owner and coach, who says
the plan is to have the shop fully
open and ready by the second
week of May.
The reason for the move has
its roots in friendship, with Janis’
Nakusp running pals encourag-

Janis and Shon Neufeld are moving Kootenay Mountain Sports
from Kaslo to Nakusp.
Photo courtesy Janis Neufeld
Nakusp, another great thing for the
town).
Her husband Shon brings extensive
biking knowledge, a boon for anyone
on person-powered wheels.
“You name it, he can do it.” said
Janis. “He can fix everything from
high end bikes to your clunker that’s
been in your garage for 20 years.”
And although nothing is written in
stone, Neufeld hopes to expand Suffer
Fest to include Nakusp too.
“Suffer Fest is its own entity,”
Neufeld clarified, with Kootenay
Mountain Sports being a sponsor of
the event, but when her family moves
to Nakusp, there will be three board

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members living in the same town.
What she would like to see, and what
could happen if the board agrees, is
a three-day event with a day each in
Kaslo, New Denver and Nakusp.
But success in Nakusp can only
happen with the support of the community, said Neufeld who invites
everyone to come by the shop and say
hi.
“The only way we’re going to make
it is local support,” she said. “We want
to make it work, so we’ll be listening
to hear what the community wants.
The more support we receive, the
more we can do.”

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Fauquier and District Golf Course ready for play
Starting in May, warm weekdays will also allow
for a gourmet dog with all the fixings and she’ll be
there full time from the end of June through the
Labour Day weekend. Service is fast and friendly so
give yourself a little more time to get to the ferry if
heading west, grab some goodies and take a dinnercruise across the lake.

SMILE of
OF the
THE W
EEK
Smile
Week
Golfers are already out on the links in Fauquier; below right: you can get a snack while you wait at the ferry now
too.
Photo courtesy Pat Kula

St. Patrick’s Day Sunday in Fauquier had locals and visitors determined to treat it like a beautiful Spring
day.
Several foursomes and twosomes
braved the stiff breeze off the lake to
take advantage of the links at the Fauquier and District Golf Club which
is now open with flags flying, greens
groomed, and fairways and T-boxes
ready. The course is still too soft to
permit the use of motorized golf carts
but the breezes from the snow-capped
peaks make walking a good warm-up.
Fees are currently discounted
at $18 for nine holes and $30 for 18
holes and the attendant may only be
there a few hours on weekends, so the
usual honour system is relied on for
fee payments. No date has been set for

the Opening Day Tournament - May
or June depending on the weather but for now everyone is welcome to
blow off the winter blahs with a few
rounds on this gorgeous lakeside golf
course. On those nice sunny days in
between our weekly snowstorms of
course!
Another sure sign of Spring is the
return of Winnie’s Wieners concession at the Fauquier ferry landing
park. Here with an intrepid shorts-clad
visitor from Edmonton.
The next customer was from the
United Kingdom and he was a lot
more warmly dressed. Christine will
be serving up her gourmet all-beef,
gluten-free, large hot dogs and spicy
Polish sausages, snacks and beverages
too, on weekends from 11 a.m. to 5
p.m. Easter weekend she will be open
Friday to Monday. Freaky weather
permitting of course.

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Alamo and New Duluth are local place names not used any more,
but they used to be.
Greg Nesteroff

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Stock certificate from the Alamo Consolidated Mining & Milling Co. sold on eBay in 2007
for $11.50 US. It was issued in 1903 and signed by president J.P. McGuigan.
Photo courtesy Greg Nesteroff

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The Alamo mine, staked in 1892
during the initial Silvery Slocan
rush, was worked off and on for 40
years along with an adjoining claim,
the Idaho. While records are spotty,
by 1926, the two had produced more
than 25,000 tons of silver, lead,
zinc, and copper with a gross value
of $825,000. (Well over $11 million
today.)
A Minnesota syndicate led by
Nathaniel Moore bought the mines
in 1894 and built a concentrator and
mill at a site between New Denver
and Three Forks called New Duluth
after the city from whence he came.
The name first appeared in the
New Denver Ledge of January 31,
1895: “Sixty tons of ore from the
Idaho are being hauled daily, and the
bins are almost full. New Duluth is
the name given to the mill site.”
The Ledge of November 7 of that
year added: “New Duluth is one mile
from Three Forks, and is commonly
called the Concentrator.”
New Duluth was never an official
name of any sort — it showed up in
newspapers but wasn’t the name of
the Nakusp and Slocan Railway siding.
According to historian Innes Cooper, “I cannot find any informa-

tion as to what they called this siding ... The name New Duluth, while
having limited use, was not used on
government documents or maps and
the only name in general use was
‘the concentrator,’ up until the name
Alamo was adopted ... My judgment
would be that it was likely named
New Duluth by Mr. Moore but the
name was not generally accepted by
the public of the day.”
It’s not clear when the place
became known as Alamo, although
it was between September 29, 1898,
when New Duluth was last mentioned in The Ledge, and April 1,
1899 when the Alamo post office
opened. Later it was known as
Alamo Siding, as in this example
from The Ledge of June 20, 1912:
“There is a 200-ton mill, complete
and in good repair at Alamo siding.”
The post office closed on September 30, 1904, re-opened on August
1, 1919 and closed again on August
4, 1939.
As for how the mine got its name,
who knows. Alamo is Spanish for
poplar tree. In the BC Archives place
names file, D.B. Lawrence of the
University of Minnesota suggested it
was “Possibly named by some loyal
Texas gold miner in honor of the historic Alamo battle at San Antonio,
Texas.”

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Kees van der Pol, President of Nakusp Rotary Club presents a
cheque for $400 to Earl Frerichs, President of Arrow Lakes Historical Society. Part of the $400 was donated to the Rotary Club by
Bee Cee Beemers Motorcycle Club, who visit Nakusp every August
and make contributions to local projects.
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Marketing Services to Promote
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The Village of Nakusp is inviting proposals from qualified consultants to
provide marketing services for the Nakusp Hot Springs, and to develop
and implement a forward-looking Marketing Strategy.

The Employment Program of British Columbia is funded by the
Government of Canada and the Province of British Columbia.

The objective of this Request for Proposals (RFP) is to provide increased
traffic to the Nakusp Hot Springs, through the planning, development
and implementation of an effective marketing program. The marketing
services contract will be for a nine-month period and is expected to
require approximately 15-20 hours per week.
Full RFP documents are available online on the Village of Nakusp
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regular office hours.
Submissions clearly marked “Request for Proposals – Nakusp Hot
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April 16, 2013 at 3:00 PM at the office of the Village of Nakusp located
at 91 – 1st Street NW, Box 280, Nakusp BC V0G 1R0 or by email to
Ltynan@nakusp.com (in PDF format). For more information, contact
Linda Tynan, CAO at 250-265-3689 or via email at Ltynan@nakusp.com

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Obituaries

Obituaries
Anne Strebchuck
(nee Markin)

November 02, 1927 January 15, 2013

Our mother, Anne
Strebchuck,
passed
away in Nelson, BC,
at the age of 85 years.
She leaves behind her
children
Caroline,
Vicky,
Stan,
Tim
(Leesa),
MaryAnne
(Bill), Misha (Seanagh), and Dunya (Sandro),
along with many grandchildren and great
grandchildren. She is also dearly missed by her
sisters Vera Fear, Mercedes Finnigan and brother
Bill Markin.
Anne lived most of her life in Hills, BC, where
she grew up, went to school, and married Alex
Strebchuck. After her children grew up, she went
back to school and became a long term care aide and
went to work. Anne loved to sing and was a member
of the Nelson Ladies Doukhobor Choir. After her
husband’s passing, she moved to Nelson, BC.

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Mom will be remembered for her amazing writing,
her paintings and wonderful flower garden. Her
family was very proud of her accomplishments. A
memorial will be held at Hills, BC, in June, 2013.
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POETRY EVENING A night of poetry
sharing beginning at 7 p.m. at the Nakusp Public Library

Saturday, April 13

ANTICIPATORY GRIEF SEMINAR

A seminar covering adjustment and adaptation process for the dying person and
those around them. Presented by the New
Denver Hospice Society. From 1-4:30 p.m.
at Bosun Hall, New Denver. For more info
or to register call Karen Forsyth (3582507), Marlana Mhoryss (265-4846), or
Chelsea Van Koughnett (353-7421).

Sunday, April 14

Like playing cards? How about Scrabble?
Come out and have a night of fun and
games at the Nakusp Legion. Things get
going around 7 p.m.
ACOA Adult Children of Alcoholics;
meets at 97 2nd Ave NW (Terra Pondera)

SEED EXCHANGE AND POTLUCK

at 8 p.m.

At the Nakusp Public Library.

Get ready for gardening by exchanging
seeds from 1-4 p.m. at 701 3rd St. For
more information call 250-265-4588.

My grandmother’s house was a place filled with
the comforting smells of baking, of warm sunshine
glowing through pleated curtains and the sound of her
mantle clock chiming out the hours. Hours I spent in
the company of a woman with a quiet voice, gentle
hands and the patience to entertain three young girls.
My grandmother has since passed, her house and
belongings sold off, but whenever my sister and I
recall our visits with her we inevitably speak of the
constant chiming of her mantle clock. The sound was

the anthem of a time when we experienced small
pools of loving calmness in an otherwise chaotic
childhood.
A while back, my sister and I stopped in at a local
antiques shop. I was nosing through stacks of old
postcards and photographs, Cari was meandering
through displays of china and kitchen items when we
heard the opening bars of Westminster chimes. We
looked at each other then, without a word, headed
towards the sound of the steady tick-tock.
The clock wasn’t grand, vintage rather than
antique. It was smaller than our grandmother’s
clock, its wood veneer beginning to crack with age
and neglect, but in our eyes she was beautiful. We
stood momentarily transported back in time. We left
the shop, postcards and teacups forgotten, a sense of
longing and sadness following us outside.
Months later we were back at the antiques’ dealer.
As we stepped inside, we noticed things had been
rearranged. The small clock wasn’t sitting on the
sideboard where we’d first seen her. We scanned the
store and found a tambour mantle clock, one with the
graceful camel back curve that most people think of
as the typical mantle clock, but it wasn’t the one we’d
fallen in love with. The one we had come for was Art
Deco in its design and more compact and sturdy in
appearance. We looked everywhere but she wasn’t
there.
I decided to take one more look through the labyrinth of furniture. In the far back corner of the store I
passed a glass-fronted bookcase when I happened to
glance down at the bottom shelf and there she was.
Back home, we placed the clock on an old dresser
and started the pendulum. The clock worked for only
a few seconds then stopped dead. We started the pendulum again with the same results. After several
unsuccessful tries a dreadful feeling that we had just
bought a broken clock sunk in. The clock had been
working the first time we had seen her but maybe
something had happened to her since our last visit

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and that’s why she’d been hidden in the
bottom of the bookcase.
Not one to give up easily, I booted
up the computer and started to research
mantle clocks. The more I read the
more I realized these clocks were
not just works of fine craftsmanship
but more like living breathing things
requiring love and attention to get them
working and to keep them, keeping
time.
The first requirement of any pendulum clock is to put the clock into beat.
The clock should have an even ticktock sound like the beat of a heart. Too
fast and the clock won’t keep accurate
time, too slow and it will stop completely after a few seconds. To put a
clock into beat the clock must be absolutely level and sitting on a stable foundation because even an accidental
bump can put it out of beat.
Pendulum clocks are only happy in
the now. Not even for a moment can
you force it to go back in time; turning the hands backwards will break the
gears. And it can’t be rushed into the
future. If you spin the hands quickly
without allowing it to chime each quarter hour you will throw off the chiming sequence and even risk damaging
the escapement.
It took me a week to get the clock
to run and chime the correct hour and
quarter hours. During my learning
curve, I couldn’t help notice the parallels between how to keep a pendulum
clock running in perfect time and how
my life could benefit from the same

attention.
Mine is a 30-hour clock which
means, for optimum working, it needs
to be wound every day. Each evening
as I attend to the needs of my clock, it
draws me into reflecting how my day
was. Did I go through the day feeling balanced or off kilter? Did I allow
myself to become rundown or was I
wound too tightly? Did I need to stop
my headlong rush into the future or had
I been dwelling too much in the past?
Did I need to stop the pendulum, step
out of the flow of time for a while and
just take a break?
Nowadays, more and more people don’t even own watches much less
mantle clocks, as they can check the
time on their cell phones, without the
hassle or the bother of maintaining an
old fashioned timepiece.
In the near future will anyone care
for these timepieces that require such
constant attention or will they be relegated to the junk heap like so many
gramophones and manual typewriters?
I hope not, for I believe that in our
disposable convenience obsessed society, we need to honour the craftsmanship, skill and artistry that these
antique timepieces embody. And if
nothing else, caring for one of these
clocks forces you to contemplate the
nature of time and the value of slowing
down. And perhaps inspire you to tune
into the beat of your own heart and the
music that your soul wishes to chime
out into the world.

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